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  • TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CÉVENNES
    TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CÉVENNES
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    Temperament and poor health motivated Robert Louis Stevenson to travel widely throughout his short life, and before he was celebrated as the author of Treasure Island, A Child's Garden of Verses, and other immortal works, he was known for his travelogues. This collection presents some of his finest writing in that vein, starting with "An Inland Voyage." This 1878 chronicle of a...
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  • THE BROKEN NEST
    THE BROKEN NEST
    RABINDRANATH. TAGORE
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Rabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories - 'The Broken Nest' and 'Dead or Alive' - he is at his devastating best, charting the slow, then fast, implosion of two perfect Bengali households. No-one understands each other; everything is misconstrued; all is lost. ...
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  • PUCKING STRONG
    PUCKING STRONG
    EMILY RATH
    He's the Star Forward, I'm the Team Therapist - Married on Paper, But Our Chemistry is Becoming 100% Real. The next spicy chapter in the internationally bestselling Jacksonville Rays hockey romance series 'I devoured it in one sitting!' 5* Reader Review 'THIS BOOK IS FREAKING INCREDIBLE' 5* Reader Review 'I wish I could erase this book from my brain just so I can read it ag...
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  • FINAL OFFER
    FINAL OFFER
    LAUREN ASHER
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  • HIGH WINDOWS
    HIGH WINDOWS
    PHILIP LARKIN
    Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces ('The Old Fools', 'This Be the Verse', 'The Explosion', and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death ...
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  • THE FALLEN AND THE KISS OF DUSK
    THE FALLEN AND THE KISS OF DUSK
    BRAMBLE AUTHOR TO BE ANNOUNCED / CARISSA BROADBENT
    New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Carissa Broadbent returns with a brand new novel in the Crowns of Nyaxia series, The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk.Mische made the ultimate sacrifice to save those she loves - and plunged the world into an eternal night. Now, imprisoned by the gods and obsessed with revenge, Asar is desperate to find her again.When a goddess...
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  • BABEL
    BABEL
    R. F. KUANG
    Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War "Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out." -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestsel...
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  • MADONNA IN A FUR COAT
    MADONNA IN A FUR COAT
    SABAHATTIN ALI
    The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. 'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1...
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  • MY TENDER MATADOR
    MY TENDER MATADOR
    PEDRO LEMEBEL
    'One of the great novels of the past half century' GARTH GREENWELL A rediscovered queer classic: the subversive, blazingly beautiful oddball romance between an ageing trans woman and a young revolutionary by a Latin American icon It is spring 1986 and Santiago's streets are aflame with protests against the dictator Augusto Pinochet. From her lavishly decorated hovel, the Qu...
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  • BALLADS OF THE LORDS OF NEW SPAIN
    BALLADS OF THE LORDS OF NEW SPAIN
    Compiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a cancionero, or anthology, in the mode of New Spain, the ballads show a reordering—but not an abandonment—of classic Aztec values. In the careful re...
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  • DEATH IN SPRING
    DEATH IN SPRING
    MERCÈ RODOREDA
    The narrator, a fourteen-year-old boy, describes the cruel customs of a village, including the horrible death of his father, and spends time with a prisoner who explains the strange events in the village. ...
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  • THE HUNGER GAMES DELUXE (PB)
    THE HUNGER GAMES DELUXE (PB)
    SUZANNE COLLINS
    With beautiful artwork by Freya Betts, this paperback edition features gorgeous sprayed edges with stencilled artwork. This is a breathtaking collectible perfect for the long-time fan or new Hunger Games reader. The first book in the ground-breaking Hunger Gamestrilogy. "I was so obsessed with this book. . . . The Hunger Games is amazing." Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twiligh...
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  • GLOW OF THE EVERFLAME
    GLOW OF THE EVERFLAME
    PENN COLE
    Glow of the Everflame is the second book in The Kindred's Curse Saga, a four-book fantasy romance series. This book will appeal to fans of plot-heavy, character-driven romantasy such as A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, From Blood and Ash, Gild, Shadow & Bone, and The Serpent & the Wings of Night.[Bokinfo]. ...
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  • BLIZZARD OF ONE
    BLIZZARD OF ONE
    MARK STRAND
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  • MY POLICEMAN
    MY POLICEMAN
    BETHAN ROBERTS
    It is in 1950s Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love will be enough for them both. A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world. Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is sa...
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  • LITTLE MISS HELPFUL
    LITTLE MISS HELPFUL
    ROGER HARGREAVES
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  • A CONFESSION AND OTHER RELIGIOUS WRITINGS
    A CONFESSION AND OTHER RELIGIOUS WRITINGS
    LEO TOLSTOY
    Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. By the time he was fifty, Tolstoy had already written the novels that would assure him of literary immortality; he had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was 'a happy man' and in good health - yet life had los...
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  • IN MEMORIAM
    IN MEMORIAM
    ALICE WINN
    WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2023 'If you haven't read it, you're missing out' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY 'One of the best debuts I've read in recent years . . . please rush out and buy it' ELIZABETH DAY ______________________ In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and an...
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  • THE NICE AND THE GOOD
    THE NICE AND THE GOOD
    IRIS MURDOCH
    "Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century." --"Guardian" Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolves round a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their household in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its two aspects, the self-gratifying and the impersonal -- the nice and the good -- a...
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  • THE AMBER SPYGLASS
    THE AMBER SPYGLASS
    PHILIP PULLMAN
    Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been - and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned... ...
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  • BLOODGUARD
    BLOODGUARD
    CECY ROBSON
    "One hundred years. Tens of thousands of gladiators. And today, only one will rise...Everything in the Kingdom of Arrow is a lie. Leith of Grey thought he had nothing to lose, that fighting in the gladiator arena was his last, best chance to save his dying sister. He was wrong - and they took everything. His hope. His freedom. His very humanity. All Leith has left is his battle...
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  • LAST STAND OF DEAD MEN
    LAST STAND OF DEAD MEN
    DEREK LANDY
    War has finally come. But it's not a war between good and evil, or light and dark - it's a war between Sanctuaries. For too long, the Irish Sanctuary has teetered on the brink of world-ending disaster, and the other Sanctuaries around the world have had enough. Allies turn to enemies, friends turn to foes, and Skulduggery and Valkyrie must team up with the rest of the Dead Men ...
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  • DIFFERENT TIMES
    DIFFERENT TIMES
    DAVID STUBBS
    A history of the great Britishcomedy tradition of the twentieth century to the present day.They don't make comedy like they used to . . . From the slapstick comedy of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, the surrealism of Spike Milligan and Monty Python, and the golden age of political incorrectness helmed by Benny Hill, to the alternative scene that burst forth following the punk ...
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  • MILK AND HONEY
    MILK AND HONEY
    RUPI KAUR
    "Rupi Kaur is the Writer of the Decade." - The New Republic #1 New York Times bestseller milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and hon...
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  • TAKE THE SLOW ROAD: SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
    TAKE THE SLOW ROAD: SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
    MARTIN DOREY
    The ultimate guide to the very best scenic and fun routes for camper vans and motorhomes around the mountains, coastlines and winding roads of beautiful Spain and Portugal.Forget hurrying. Forget putting your foot down and racing through sweeping bends. Forget the understeer (whatever that is). Forget the blur of a life lived too fast. This is a look at taking life slowly. It's...
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  • NO FOND RETURN OF LOVE
    NO FOND RETURN OF LOVE
    BARBARA PYM
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  • GLOW
    GLOW
    RAVEN KENNEDY
    The BookTok hit: The Plated Prisoner Series continues in book 4. This dark adult fantasy romance is inspired by the myth of King Midas and the gold-touched woman who realizes her true worth. "I was nothing but a road to Midas. A means to get to where he wanted to go, and I paved that path in gold."My life as been made up of gilded lies. But death has been shaped from rot. Like ...
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  • THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD
    THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD
    KAREN LORD
    As first contact transforms Earth, a team of gifted visionaries race to create a new future in this wondrous science fiction novel from the award-winning author of The Best of All Possible Worlds.[Bokinfo]. ...
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  • SHANTARAM
    SHANTARAM
    GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS
    A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld.'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a m...
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  • THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST
    THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST
    URSULA K. LE GUIN
    A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. In defending their lives, they endanger the very foundations of their so...
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